Apache HBase Birds of Feather Session

Nick Dimiduk (Hortonworks) and Subash D'Souza will host and present at the HBase BoFs.

3:30-3:35: Introduction & Welcome ( Subash & Nick )
3:35-3:55: Jonathan Hsieh & Ryan Blue
Title: Common encoding scheme for HBase
Abstract: This talk will outline the recently proposed common encoding specification for higher-level data types in HBase. We will cover the current consensus and have a discussion about the outstanding issues.
3:55-4:15: Konstantin Boudnik
Title: Consensus based replication in Hbase and other distributed systems
Abstract: Current State of Development for Consensus Based Replication Work HBase (HBASE-10909 & HBASE-11241), technical challenges, progress and the next steps. The talk will be also covering the work on ZK-based common implementation of coordination engine: a parallel effort happening in Hadoop
4:15-4:35: Jimmy Xiang
Title: Meta Co-Locate with Master
Abstract: Jimmy will talk about the background, the changes of the patch (HBASE-10569), and its impact to deployment and upgrade. He will also talk a little about the progress of HBASE-11059: region assignment without ZooKeeper.
4:35-4:55: Nick Dimiduk
Title: BlockCache 101
Abstract: This session examines the BlockCache. You'll learn what the BlockCache does and its role in the HBase read path. We'll look at the important metrics and when and why to consider a non-default configuration.
4:55 - 5 - Q & A. Thank you

Nick Dimiduk is an HBase committer and an author of HBase in Action. He works on the HBase team at Hortonworks where his focus is on usability and performance

Subash DSouza is a Big Data Evangelist for Southern California. He runs a number of User Groups in LA such as the HBase user Group, Hadoop user group and the Big Data User Group. He is passionate about promoting Hadoop and HBase in SoCal.

Dr. Konstantin Boudnik, Vice President of Open Source Development at WANdisco, is one of the early developers of Hadoop and a co-author of Apache BigTop, the open source framework that focuses on building the community around creation of software stacks in the Hadoop ecosystem. With 20 years of experience in software development, including Hadoop, analytics, Git, distributed systems and more, Dr. Boudnik is contributing to multiple open source projects in the storage and data processing area.

Jimmy Xiang is software engineer at Cloudera. He is also an Apache HBase Committer. He is very interested in HBase stability and availability.

Ryan Blue is a Software Engineer at Cloudera working on the Kite project.

Jonathan works for Cloudera as a Software Engineer and as the HBase Team Tech Lead. He is an Apache HBase committer and PMC member, a founder of the Apache Flume project

Maximum Capacity: 250 people

This BoF is open to everyone, including Conference Attendees.